[Intro]
CAmFCF#AmFC
[Verse 1]
CAm
Are you tired of shame and secrets
FC
wishing you could let them go?
F#Am
Do you feel like an orphan searching
FC
for a home?
CAm
There’s a love that fills what’s empty
FC
There’s a place you can be changed
F#Am
There’s a God who knows you
F
He’s calling out your name
[Chorus]
CAm
Come on down to the river
F
Come be washed in
C
the Blood And your
F#Am
sin will be forgiven by the
FC
power of His love
C
Come be changed by
AmFC
the mercy that makes all things new
F#
There the lost get
AmFC
found come on down, down down To the river!
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
CAm
It flows like the Mississippi
FC
from the giver of endless grace
F#Am
Everyone is welcome here to
FC
drive into the waves
CAm
So leave the questions far behind you
FC
leave your past back on the shore
F#AmF
And run with wild abandon, wait no more!
REPEAT [Chorus]
[Bridge]
Dm
Every burden, every scar let the
AmF#
waters wash away
Dm
No matter who you were before
F
You belong to Christ today
[Refrain]
C
As I went down to the river to pray studying
F#C
about that good ol’ way
F#
And who shall wear the robe and crown; good Lord
FC
show me the way
F#C
O sister let’s go down, let’s go
FC
down, come on down
F#C
O sister let’s go down,
CFC
down to the river to pray
[Chorus 2]
DBm
Come on down to the river come be
GD
washed in the Blood And your
ABm
sins will be forgiven by the
GDD
power of His love Come be changed by
BmGD
the mercy that makes all things new
ABmGD
There the lost get found come on down, down, down To the river!
[Outro]
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